Firearm chaos

Ventura County Star
Published 4:11 p.m. PT Dec. 17, 2018

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Borderline Bar & Grill employee Lacy Fuller, holding her son Waylon, helps organize items from the Borderline memorial that was moved Sunday from Moorpark Road and Rolling Oaks Drive to a new location near the entrance to the bar.(Photo: JOE LUMAYA/SPECIAL TO THE STAR)Buy Photo

In regards to a recent letter suggesting that if some of the patrons of the Borderline Bar & Grill had been armed, they would have been able to take out the shooter, I would like to offer a different opinion.

If a well-trained officer with years of experience can accidentally shoot another policeman in the ensuing chaos, I can only imagine how many more people would have been killed as a result of armed patrons — some of whom may have been drinking.

I, for one, do not want my grandchildren attending public events where the general public is carrying guns. My heart goes out to the family of the officer who was killed and the CHP officer.

Susan Friedman, Oak Park

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